The Agora APPROACH

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National computer societies the role of TCs.
Jan Wibe TC 3 Chair
the International Federation for Information Proce
ssing
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Background
The project addresses issues identified in
the IFIP Strategy document Project 3.a. Member
societies new services Complete text
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Project analysis A
It has been recognized that IFIP has problems in
satisfying the needs of its stakeholders, the
national computer societies. To quote the
managing director of the Norwegian Computer
Society I feel that IFIP is mainly for its own
sake and not for the national computer societies.
I would like that the TCs produce more - f.ex.
articles, reports, statistics or publications
which could be available for the member
societies.
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Project analysis B
To address these problems a close cooperation
between TCs and national computer societies is
needed. This cooperation should produce results
that are of value both to the stakeholders of
IFIP (the national computer societies) and the
TCs. The very essence of the cooperation is to
identify the needs that are common to
stakeholders and TCs and to address these needs.
One common interest might be found in the
implementation of IFIP professional standards in
local, national contexts
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General description of the project
First find topic which is of interest to
computer societies, preferably an interest that
is within the scope of a computer society special
interest group. Secondly the topic must be
interesting to the TCs involved. Aim of the
project is not for IFIP to provide services, but
a cooperation that will create results satisfying
the common interest.
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Atelier and Studio
The Ateliers function is to generate generic
knowledge based on the implementation experience
in different local contexts, called studios. In
the Atelier the local experiences are brought
together to learn from. Generic knowledge
developed from these experiences in the Atelier
will help the local studio implementation. In
this case studios would be implementations that
national computer societies realise in their
national environment. The Atelier can be realised
as part of normal IFIP TC activities, bringing
together TC-members and national computer society
professionals. Basically an Atelier is a
community of interest. Generic model Generic
structure
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Participants
Selection of participants in the project Select
2 3 TCs to take part in the project. This
could be done by TA. 2 3 computer societies
should also be selected or invited. The 3 TCs
must work in close cooperation with the national
computer societies. Project
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ifip
General Assembly Representatives of Member
Societies, and TC Chairs
Organisation Chart


Council Executive Board, and Councillors

Executive Board

President
Secretary
Treasurer
Four Vice-Presidents
IFIP Secretariat

Technical Assembly
Standing Committees Activity Management,
Marketing, Admissions, Publications, Developing
Countries Support, Statutes and Bylaws, Finance,
Congress Steering, Member Society Relations,
Awards
13 Technical Committees 101 Working Groups